This is a Daredevil pic I did for a Penciljack contest. I’m not real big on doing finished pencils, as I’ve been leaning heavily on digital media to do some of the heavy lifting for me, so it was fun to do a more finished character, although the piece as a whole is a bit on the light side.
I’ll most likely do some nice shiny colors in this just to give it a little more pepper.
This is a goofy concept that some friends and I have been playing around with, but this particular image is just my lazy interpretation, based on handy martial arts photo reference. This is done for a zombies vs martial arts contest on the Penciljack.com message forums. This should be my last attempt at this particular method of halftone coloring. I’m not really feeling it, and I want to step away before I get too involved in trying to make it work.
Thought I’d try something different when coloring this bad boy. I inked it with a couple of brush pens (although they were the same type, one was better for detail work…Yeah I don’t know either). I wanted to try out some halftone coloring stuff, so I figured this would be a nice piece to try it with.
I’m not completely feeling this, though. I may go back and color it again using Adobe Illustrator…Assuming of course I have time to do that. I may just chalk it up as an experiment and move on.
Here’s a piece I did for a friendly challenge. The topic was aerial combat, and since I need to push myself beyond just kungfu, robots and zombies, I jumped at the chance. I pictured it much differently in my head (and much cooler), but since the final had a lot of awkward negative space, I rearranged the characters and made it into a really cheesy action movie poster (I LOVE bad action movies).
I did struggle coloring this in Photoshop (I decided to do all the pencils and inks traditionally, and all the colors with just photoshop (further “pushing” myself, since I rely on digital inks and Illustrator a lot. I kinda wanted to go back to my roots).
My brother and I attended the Palladium Books Open House this year and had a lot of fun. I wish I could post the whole report here, but I’m just so lazy and I already posted it on the Palladium books forums (I know, I know I can copy and paste it, but c’mon…I’m lazy). Anyway, while we were there we did quite a few commissioned sketches. Here are three of them. The people who we did these for were gracious enough to email me a scan of the drawings.
I don’t remember how many we actually did, but I’m still working on the overflow that we weren’t able to finish before the event ended Sunday afternoon. I did learn to come prepared for anything, though. I thought I had everything I needed (different types of pencils and pens, plus a straight edge), but that wheel was quite a curse for my unsteady hand. I should have brought an ellipse template or two. Oh well, live and learn…
